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Old 17-10-2004, 4:11 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Grey Imports...

How do you know if the tv you order over the net is a UK or Grey Import model.
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Old 17-10-2004, 4:55 PM   #2 (permalink)
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How do you know if the tv you order over the net is a UK or Grey Import model.
It is normally the last 2 letters/numbers after the model number that denote the country the device was intended for.
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Old 17-10-2004, 5:18 PM   #3 (permalink)
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yours should be "b"
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Old 17-10-2004, 5:23 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Mine is A.
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Old 17-10-2004, 5:27 PM   #5 (permalink)
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No sorry the A is at the end of the serial no.
It is B at the end of the model number.
Phew.
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Old 17-10-2004, 5:29 PM   #6 (permalink)
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your getting paranoid about that TV
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Old 17-10-2004, 5:36 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Yes your right, but 1500 quid for something it aint would play on my mind a tad.
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Old 17-10-2004, 5:43 PM   #8 (permalink)
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imagine how i feel after 6 Sony TV's in 6 months!!(3 HQ100's,although only one of those was "bad") BTW,can you take a picture of some text on the screen of yours? Juts interested in something.......


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Old 17-10-2004, 6:22 PM   #9 (permalink)
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No probs, but what sort.
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Old 17-10-2004, 6:42 PM   #10 (permalink)
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teletext and the TV's own menu's-if you could email them or post as their original size that would be great just interested to see if your TV displays some RED colour bleed like all the ones i've seen/owned(!!) Many thanks....
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Old 17-10-2004, 6:57 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Here's one.
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Old 17-10-2004, 7:02 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Thanks for that,yours is the same as mine(and all the others i've seen) if you get up very close to the screen you will see slight red colour bleed.I was hoping there would be some setting in the service manual with regard to this,sadly the service manual doesn't really tell you what all the settings are!! I was thinking it may be something along the lines of the Sony smear fix found as a sticky on these forums.......
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Old 17-10-2004, 7:06 PM   #13 (permalink)
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And another...

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Old 17-10-2004, 10:03 PM   #14 (permalink)
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From that picture the problem looks to me like red misconvergence. If that's the case then there's no magic menu fix for that. Such things are always more noticeable on text because you are looking at white text characters on a black screen - all 3 colours are at, or near, maximum intensity so any convergence error is more noticable. But it doesn't look serious from what I can see.

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Old 18-10-2004, 9:16 AM   #15 (permalink)
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I would agree that it appears as a convergence error but why are they all setup like this? ALL three HQ100's had this (along with other problems ) ALL the ones i've seen in shops have it too, so why is the red convergence out on all HQ100's? Agreed it's not that bad but it's one of those things that makes you wonder why they are ALL like it......
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